Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 20 shown for “Monk Jie” — 48 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 15:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Landscape
Monk Jie · Dated 1599 (or 1659)

The left arm of a monk and his left hand
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Fisherman's Lodge At Mount Xisai
Li Jie · ca. 1170

Ada Monk
José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · c. 1880-85

Seal with knob in the shape of a wheel
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1424

A Praying Monk
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

Ink bamboo
Li Shan · dated 1749

Scenes from Life of San Giovanni Gualberto
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1590s

Poems on painting plum blossoms and bamboo
Zhao Mengjian · dated 1260

Piano bench owned and used by Thelonious Monk
Artist not stated in the record · 1962

Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion
Qian Gu · 1560

In St. Peter’s, Rome
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · ca. 1881

Grooms and horses
Zhao Mengfu · dated 1296 and 1359

Old Monk
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1883

Cloudy Mountains
Fang Congyi · ca. 1360–70
Untitled (Study of a Standing Monk)
Ida Josephine Burgess, born Chicago, IL1855-died New York City 1934 · 1886

Bodhisattvas and Monks, from Cave 224
Unidentified · 4th-6th century

Two Monks, from Cave 224
Unidentified · 4th-6th century

Monk's Head
John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812 · 1796

The Head of an Old Monk and the Head of a Child
Donato Creti, Italian, 1671–1749 · ca. 1710
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 683 matched · 40 examined · 25 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 15:11 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.